“I think a lot of that opportunity might still be in front of us on the business side,” T-Mobile US CEO Mike Sievert told investors.

Recent acquisitions build on the carrier's core network capabilities.

“From a technical perspective, the carriers are standardizing on the eSIM and use it," Netskope's Joe DePalo said.

“When it comes to additional deals, we continue to be extremely prudent,” Nokia CEO Pekka Lundmark said.

The vendor has written off two-thirds of the $6.2 billion it spent to acquire Vonage Holdings

Small vendors will "expect fire-sale acquisitions to larger infrastructure vendors, bankruptcies and radical specialization," Forrester's David Holmes said.

There remain challenges in multicloud connectivity, cloud-native migrations, and domain specific artificial intelligence.

“5G RedCap is creating an opening to drive 5G device volumes in the IoT domain,” ABI Research's Dan Shey stated.

“Hyperscalers, to me, have a huge untapped opportunity," IDC's John Byrne said.

The $1.1 billion impairment charge was tied to “lower anticipated market growth rates in Vonage’s current portfolio.”

“I always said that we really need a few big vendors because you need volume to really be healthy in this market," Dell'Oro Group's Jimmy Yu said.

Enterprise and partner outreach are top of mind.

“We have others that we support, but the way I like to say it is we want to be intentionally great at a handful," Nitel's Mike Frane said.

“It's a massive mindset change because it's not about telco network technologies anymore. It's about the cloud," Analysys Mason's Gorkem Yigit said.

One of the major advantages of the certification is its ability to streamline industry conversations and eliminate confusion.

“We’ve kind of seen a pause in spend on these due to some macroeconomic issues that are going on in the market,” TBR's Michael Soper said.

“If you don't get the good relationship going you're going to push something for the OT people that they don't want," Omdia's Pablo Tomasi warned.

But abstracting away complicating layers is key to helping overburdened IT teams.

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“There will be multiple providers, and in fact as far as we’re concerned, we want there to be multiple providers," AT&T CFO Pascal Desroches said.

Traditional telecom operators are in a prime position for some of the $13 billion in enterprise spend expected by 2028.

Tata Communications is looking to grow its presence in the U.S. and is pinning much of its strategy on its concept of digital fabric.

CFO Pascal Desroches this week said the carrier is seeing progress toward attracting more potential open radio access network equipment vendors.

Kubenet can act as an abstracted level on top of a router or switch where orchestration of those devices can be managed in a vendor-agnostic way.